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Asked if he and former Lakers teammate Shaquille O'Neal were ever friends, Kobe Bryant said, "No. I believe we need to work night and day; figure out how to get to where we need to go. And he wanted to do it a different way." Bryant's facial expressions during his interview with NBA TV's Ahmad Rashad were equally telling about his relationship with his former feud partner, as he glard intensely at Rashad and cocking his jaw to the side. The pair won three straight NBA titles together from 2000 to 2002. "I wasn't going to back down from him and neither was he," Bryant said. "He felt I should play a certain way and give the ball into...

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Asked if he and former Lakers teammate Shaquille O'Neal were ever friends, Kobe Bryant said, "No. I believe we need to work night and day; figure out how to get to where we need to go. And he wanted to do it a different way."
Bryant's facial...

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